Members of the Baltimore County Council will vote tonight to allow the county to adjudicate alleged environmental code violations, providing tests for the codes themselves and relief for county judges, some officials said.

County environmental officials rarely pursue code violations because cases are heard in district court under existing law, said David Carroll, director of the county?s Environmental Protection and Resource Management Department.

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